Re: [tied] [pieml] Re: IE: likely home, India

Torsten:

>Not that I would disagree, but what happens if we assume with Cuny
>and Glen Gordon that what is traditionally reconstructed as PIE <o>
>and <e> was actually <a> and <&>? We'd then have for Indo-Iranian
><&> -> <a> and for Greek etc <a> -> <o> and <&> -> <e>. Suddenly II
>looks closer to PIE than Greek etc.

That's not nice. You're now twisting my nice little theories :( When I say
that *e derives from earlier *& and *o from *a, I distinctly am talking
about a _Pre-IE_ stage, not IE itself. IE most certainly seems to have
had *e and *o and I personally don't question it since Germanic, Anatolian
and Greek all appear to reflect *e (and not schwa).

- love gLeN


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